Like you said, it depends which block.

I could have a corrupt block in the middle of a movie file and not even notice, but if I lost a block near the beginning of a large compressed archive file, I may lose the entire archive -- and if it's silent corruption undetected by the filesystem or disk drive, it may be propagated to all of my backups before it's discovered.

I'd rather have the drive fail entirely versus slow undetected block corruption.

Unless you use a checksumming filesystem (zfs, btrfs, etc) and regularly scrub the filesystem (both data and metadata), would you even know if you lost a few blocks of data?

That hasn't been a problem for quite some time... As long as you didn't do something like "touch ./--no-preserve-root" beforehand, all that will do is remove all of the non-hidden files from your current directory:

[user@test]$ sudo rm -rf * /
rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'
rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe

Yes, or citizen oversight of those that we're paying to protect us.

The problem is that not all abuse is reported so you don't always have dates, badges, etc.

If you can make a sweeping request and enlist volunteers (or even computer algorithms) to look for abuse, you may uncover actionable patterns that can be followed up by specific FOIA requests for original footage.

My parents still have one of these in their house, and it still works fine (even if dialing is tedious):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Since it's around 50 years old and still working, I'd say it's the best dumb phone.

It's good to have a healthy fear of asterisks -- there's a big difference between "rm -rf *.tmp" and "rm -rf * .tmp"

Why doesn't anyone read the articles any more?

This guy has nothing to do with the original footage -- the originals are still used for court and other police use (internal affairs investigations, etc). This guy's job is to automatically redact videos so they can be released to the public without paying police to sit down and manually review every video.

Well more like "You can have all the cash you want, as long as you find a way to make it unusable as currency, yet still detectable as cash".

So a little police oversight through FOIA is fine, but too much oversight is too much, because police need to be able to get away with abuse at least part of the time?

Did you read the article? The software blurs the image (or does edge detection, not sure which they are using) to make it possible to see activities without identifying people. So he basically made it impossible to do any kind of identity detection on the processed footage. There's nothing keeping the police from doing so on the original footage, but this guy isn't responsible.

Belligerent? Are you sure you know what that word means?

Maybe it's the word "subset" that you don't understand?

UDP and TCP are completely different protocols, and the only thing they really have in common is that they are (usually) built on IP (the "IP" in TCP/IP and UDP/IP).

It looks too big and clunky to take significant market share -- replaceable components mean larger size and less integrated "fit and finish". There may be a niche market for something like this, but it seems unlikely to reach the mainstream -- I'd rather pay $400 every few years for a brand new phone that's (relatively) small and compact and works reliably with a warranty than spend $200 every year or two to upgrade components and then am on my own with making sure those components work well together. "If I replace the LCD with the new one, will my GPU still work? If I upgrade the GPU, do I need a new motherboard? I'd like a new 802.11ac wifi module, but it's not compatible with my GSM module"

Do you consider everything that you don't want to be a waste of resources and money? Does the existence of this project deprive you of something that *you* need? Do you assume that the developers would work on your pet project if they weren't working on this? Do you think that the money that people are investing in this would somehow benefit you if it weren't spent on this project?

Ok, if you're going to make up some ephemoral "TCP/IP Suite" that includes 6 of the 7 OSI layers, then sure, TCP and UDP fall into that group.

But the point remains that UDP is not part of TCP, they are completely independent.